Use Case DC2 - Mammomolgist specializing in bears

Sun has spent her entire career studying bears in their
natural habitat. Her research team goes
into the field with a notebook, camera, simple instruments and sample
containers. They tranquilize and tag
bears before collecting data about individuals such as age, weight and
sex. They also collect data about entire
bear populations by taking a census, collecting feces and monitoring
carcasses. Many of her research subjects
are radio collared, giving her a lat/long as often as every 10 minutes. Much of these data are recorded in a notebook
and later copied onto a spreadsheet. Sun
is interested in finding additional types of data that correspond to the
location of bear populations and additional bear data so she can put her
current study into perspective. She is
hesitant to share her geolocated data because she works with endangered
species.

Queries

Aggregate data about a species using a name even though there are multiple names for a species

query the locations of a
particular species of bear in relation to temperature and precipitation

Operations/Tasks

Storing observation data, transferred from spreadsheets and maintaining informal annotations and notes. (maintain linkage between data and field notes)